First off, Thank you all who reviewed/favorited my first work. You don't understand how happy you made me. I was literally jumping around my basement when I found out you guys liked it. ;;;; So, Ron-sama, jarmitc2032, Brimmstone, userx, and Spitfire F.22 this chapter is officially dedicated to you guys, I spent most of the day writing it once I saw your encouraging reviews.
And to anyone confused, this story is the continuation of "Concluding the Evening" It's just about a month or so after that. I was originally going to add a lot of stuff between then and the first chapter of "Love and Destiny", about 5 chapters worth to be exact. But it would have taken way too long, so I cut out the unnecessary stuff and went right into the good story.
Now I'm really determined to finish this before school starts again in about 3 weeks. Thank you all, and keep those reviews coming!
Ron walked away from Kim house, it was nearly 1:30 in the morning, and he was grinning like an idiot as he walked the short distance to his home. He seemed completely oblivious to his surroundings, his mind racing and going over every little detail of the wonderful night. Even though it wasn't quite the romantic evening he had hoped for, just he and Kim, it was still fantastic because he could spend it with her.
It seemed like only moments from when he left the Possible until Ron walked into his house and made his way upstairs into his room. Inside, the floating green figure of Sensei, the master of the Yamanuchi School, was waiting for him. He sat at the foot of Ron's bed floating in the lotus position, his eyes following Ron as he walked about his room, putting on his pajamas and setting down his sleeping naked mole rat companion.
Ron, being Ron, didn't seem to notice anything out of the ordinary. At least until he slipped himself into bed, instinctively he closed his eyes and tried to drift off to sleep. "Night Rufus, Night Sensei."
Ron stopped for a second, blinked himself awake and turned to face Sensei. He was quite startled to find himself face to face with his master, screaming and nearly falling out of bed when reality finally hit him. "Wahhh!"
"Hey!" The scream woke up Rufus, who chattered angrily at Ron. At least until he notice sensei and bowed respectively, and offering a friendly "Hello"
Sensei bowed to both of them. "Good evening Stoppable-san, Rufus-san. I'm sorry to have disturbed you so late, but I did need to speak to you alone, and as I watched you earlier today you seemed to be quite busy."
Ron finally composed himself and sat up to face Sensei, bowing in return. "Oh, hey, no big sensei. Just surprised me a bit is all. So, what's up? You got more monkey problems? Need the master of the mystical power to kick some more Monkey Fist behind? Huwahh!" Ron started to move his arms around in karate style moves he just thought would look cool, but stopped as he realized that sensei probably would know he didn't have any sort of clue about anything martial arts related.
"No, not as such Stoppable-san. At least not now. Today I only wish to extend to you an offer; I would be greatly honored if you would consider returning to Yamanuchi, for an… extended stay."
Ron seemed to consider this for a moment, looking at Rufus for some advice or anything, but the mole rat had already fallen back to sleep. He looked back at sensei a deep frown crossing his face. "I-I just dunno sensei, I mean, I've got so many things going on right now, a-and…"
Sensei lifted his hand to cut Ron off, his face remaining stoic. "You need not decide immediately Stoppable-san, take you're time to think about it. I know that soon you shall return to Yamanuchi, and more for your own reasons than from my request. Until then I must depart, good evening Stoppable-san." Sensei bowed and his image swirled, grew fainter and disappeared completely.
Ron sat up in his bed for quite a while after that, with Rufus asleep, and no one else to talk to, he was left alone with his thoughts. As he often does he started speaking to himself to help him organize his thoughts, but kept his voice low so as not to wake up Rufus again. "Hmmm.. I'm not sure about this. I did enjoy my stay at the school, and I learned a lot about my monkey powers, and I did get more martial arts experience. Though I did hate getting up early every morning, and practically starving cause of that darn master lunch lady." Ron rolled over, placing his hand on his cheek and propped himself up by his elbow. "But then, maybe it'll be a good opportunity, maybe I won't be such a distraction to Kim, and she won't have to worry about me as much. Maybe I'll actually be able to hold my own on the missions if sensei could teach me more about monkey kung fu." Ron flipped himself over, still not able to get comfortable with all these thoughts running though his head. "But why does sensei want me to come back at all if there aren't any Monkey Fist problems? Something doesn't sit right about this. I think I just need to talk to KP about it. Since she does know about the school now, I don't think it should be a problem telling her about this." Ron sighed dejectedly and laid on his back, closing his eyes and finally letting his mind calm down and drift off to sleep.
The next day Ron came over to the Possible's house around mid-afternoon. He had left Rufus at home for once, the little guy was getting tired of being ignored when he and Kim were doing their lovey dovey, boyfriend girlfriend thing; Rufus would just rather stay at home today where he could at least play video games and not be bored.
The door was open so Ron poked his head in and knocked on the open door, alerting anyone there to his presence. "Hello Possible clan? Anyone home?" Ron stepped inside, the house seemed completely bare but he tried calling again, just incase no one heard him. "KP? You here?"
Kim's voice echoed through the halls, coming from the direction of her room. "Up here Ron! Come on up!" Ron readily obeyed, walking up the stairs that lead to Kim's room, finding his girlfriend sitting in front of her computer, looking outright bored and visiting a site that looked like some sort of message board.
"Hey KP. Got your message, sorry I didn't come over earlier; I had a… ummm… hard time getting to bed last night." Ron walked behind Kim, wrapping his arms around her waist and giving her a quick peck on the lips.
Kim returned the kiss and smiled at Ron. "No big Ron, I've just been bored out of my mind today. Parents at work, and they sent the tweebs to some summer camp." Ron looked very shocked when she said this. "Oh don't worry Ron, I made sure it was no where near Wannaweep, and no monkeys allowed. Everyone around here knows your horror stories, and I promise the tweebs were not happy about going." Kim giggled and grinned playfully.
Ron sat down on her bed with a thump, his face very serious. "That is not funny Kim, I wouldn't wish that fate on anyone, not even your brothers."
Kim just smiled, and turned to her computer, shutting down the Internet and turning off the monitor. "So Ron, what's wrong? I thought I left you with some very pleasant thoughts to put you to sleep?" Kim got up and sat next to him, wrapping her arms around his shoulders in an attempt to comfort him, hoping that Ron would finally open up about what's been bugging him these last few weeks.
Ron laughed lightly at her comment. "Yeah, that certainly was.. pleasant to say the least. But that wasn't it, you see… Sensei visited me last night."
"Sensei?" Kim looked at Ron slightly confused as she tried to remember whom he was talking about. "You mean the master of the Yamanuchi School that we met a few months ago during that thing with DNAmy?"
Ron nodded solemnly "Yeah, that's him."
"Well, what'd he want Ron? Having problems with Monkey Fist again? Or does he need your mystical monkey powers for something?"
"That's what weirds me out KP, he won't tell me what he wants. Just told me I need to go to Yamanuchi for an extended stay. Didn't say how long, or why." Ron places his hand on his chin, looking deep in thought. "I definitely don't wanna go and leave you behind." He looked down at her, his eyes shining with love and happiness, until a thought seemed to come to him and he tore his gaze from her, beginning to speak again. "But I was thinking it wouldn't be such a bad thing. I mean, maybe I could ask him to train me a bit, and when I come back..." Ron suddenly almost looked sad; he looked down at the ground and spoke very softly, like he didn't want Kim to hear him. "I might be able to protect you better on missions"
Kim looked as if she'd jump right of the bed and slap him for saying such a thing. But Kim controlled herself; she could tell this was really important to him that she understood. "Ron… ok, first off, I do not need protection. You know that, and trust me, all the villains know that too." She said with a wink, but noticed that Ron wasn't looking at her. "Ok, and second, you've been doing so well lately! You've been working so hard at trying to improve you're abilities. And I've gotta say, I'm impressed."
Ron seemed to perk up a little when she said that. "You really think so?"
She nodded sincerely "Of course I do silly. But I'll tell ya what. Lets do it."
Ron's eyes got wide when she said that, "Wh-what do you mean?"
"I mean lets go to Yamanuchi. We'll just tell Wade to call off all missions that aren't world domination level stuff. Like Dementor and the like, after all we can't let the world be taken over while we're on vacation or anything like that." She smiles at her boyfriend, hoping this might cheer him up. "You'll get you're training that you want, and we could both at least find out what sensei wants from you?" At that Kim snuggled up next to Ron, running her fingers up and down his chest, teasing and encouraging him a bit.
"Well… Sensei never said anything about you not coming. So I don't think he'd mind. And I've always wanted to show you the place, it really was beautiful." Ron began staring off in a wistful gaze, thinking about the lovely Japanese mountains, and being able to spend time with Kim there.
"Oh, I sure you admired the landscape plenty with that Yori girl." Kim's eyes shifted into a harsh, accusing gaze in Ron's direction, bit a hint of playfulness could be seen in her eyes.
Ron was still in his fantasy, and didn't realize what Kim said at first "Yeah…" But then he shook himself from his stupor when he heard the reality of what was just said. "What! No Kim, I-I never!"
But it was too late, the damage was done, Kim turned her back to Ron, crossing her hands over her chest in a fit. "Sure Ron, I know you just wanna be alone with her." Kim said in a mocking tone, now it was obvious to Ron she was just playing with him, but he decided to play along anyway.
"Come on KP! I didn't even she liked me until well after we beat Monkey Fist last time." Ron wrapped his arms around Kim's waist from behind. "You're the only girl I wanna be alone with like that."
Kim's lips crossed into a playful smirk. "You know Ron? We're alone right now."
"Um, yeah?" Ron sat there in his normal confusion.
Kim turned around; her eyes sneaky and seductive like a cat. She placed her hands on both his shoulders and spoke to Ron in a low and sultry voice. "Come here you." Kim quite literally pounced on Ron, pinning him to the bed. Her lips quickly pressed against his, kissing him deeply.
Ron was, for lack of a better word, surprised. It wasn't the bad type of surprise like he normally experienced, like when a laser cannon fired at him randomly and he had to run for his life. No, this felt nice. But still it took him a good 4 seconds before he realized Kim was kissing him, and how nice it felt and he could freely return the affection. And he did so gladly, wrapping his arms around her back and pulling her closer into the ever-deepening kiss.
Slowly, Kim's mouth began to open, exposing herself to a level of passion she and Ron had not yet experienced. She licked at his lips, desiring and entrance to share herself completely with her love. She pressed her body hard against Ron's, rubbing against him, running her hands up his body and tangling through his hair.
"Kimmie-cub!" Her Fathers voice echoed from downstairs, effectively ending Kim and Ron's teenage make out session. She could hear multiple footsteps, which could only mean that her father had picked up the tweebs on his way home from work.
Slowly she reluctantly pulled away from Ron's embrace. She let out an exasperated sigh that they were forced to stop long before she wanted to. But smiled as she looked down at Ron, goofy and loving grin spread wide across his face, his eyes seemed glazed over and distant, his hair ragged and messed up now.
Kim got up, and ran her fingers through her hair, making sure it wasn't messed up as well. "Sorry about that. I'll go see what's up." Kim quickly ran down her steps, leaving Ron to clean himself up, and conceal the fact that they were doing something her father most likely wouldn't approve of.
Kim found her father in the kitchen with three boxes of pizza opened up and ready to eat, one was double cheese, one veggie, and the other was bacon. She leaned up to kiss her dad on the cheek. "Hi dad, you're home early."
"Sure am Kimmie-cub. Your mother had a few emergencies to deal with at the hospital, so I had to pick up dinner and your brothers from camp. Who apparently made some modifications to a speed boat on the lake." Dr Possible looked accusingly over at his two sons.
Jim and Tim didn't even try to look innocent; they just went on explaining their attempted experiment. "We thought with enough boost…" Jim started
"We could get the boat into a stable orbit…" Tim continued
Jim started again "But we didn't have a good enough angle and…"
"We couldn't make it out of the Ionosphere." Tim finally finished.
Dr Possible smiled at his aspiring young boys. "That's ok boys, you'll probably have better launch conditions tomorrow."
Kim let out an exasperated sigh, grabbing a few slices of veggie pizza for herself, and was about to call for Ron when he walked through the kitchen door, luckily with no signs of his and Kim's earlier encounter. "Good evening Possible family"
Mr. Dr Possible smiled at his daughter's boyfriend, possibly the only boy in the world he would trust his daughter with. "Hello Ronald. That's funny I didn't even hear you come in"
Ron was about to explain that he had been there for a while, but Kim cut him off. "Oh yeah, Ron's been practicing some... umm… ninja techniques. You know, to help out on missions." Kim let out a nervous laugh, not wanting her dad to know that Ron was there for a while, and give him reason to suspect as to what they were doing.
"Groovy." Kim's dad replied, trying to be cool again.
Kim in her quick thinking, ignoring her fathers seriously uncool comment and thought of a way to hopefully get her parents permission to go to Japan with Ron. "In fact dad, Ron was actually planning to go to Japan to further his studies. And I was thinking I could maybe tag along and maybe learn some ninja moves too. Please Dad?" Kim didn't want to take any chances, she let loose her fatal puppy dog pout to convince her dad to let her go. After all there was no way she was going to let Yori get a chance to be alone with Ron while she had any say in the matter.
Dr Possible took one look at her daughters pouting face and instantly broke. With a joyous smile he said, "Sounds like fun. Bring me back a pair of chopsticks."
Kim happily hugged her father, squeezing him tight "Oh thank you Dad! You rock!"
Ron just looked stupefied at what just happened and how Kim easily just got her parents permission to travel across the globe for an undisclosed amount of time. Now if he could only convince his parents that easily.
After a few hours of eating pizza, laughing and joking with Kim around her house Ron eventually left for his house, his mind now set on how he could convince his parents to let him go to some super secret ninja school, and practically live there for an unknown time, and with Kim along no less.
Ron was once again lost in his thoughts as he turned into his driveway, when from out of nowhere a large elder male ninja jumped out from a tree and in front of Ron. Ron jumped back with a scream and assumed what he thought looked like a fighting position; he'd seen Kim pose like this before.
The ninja spoke slowly and with a thick Japanese accent "Fear not Stoppable-san. I am a friend. And I think this" The ninja pulled a letter from nothingness and placed it in Ron's hand. "Should solve all of your problems."
With that the ninja disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving Ron with a letter. Which at closer inspection was addressed to "Mr. and Mrs. Stoppable." And was from the Yamanuchi school.
"Booya! I'm knew sensei would come through for me and find me an excuse to go to Japan!" Ron quickly ran inside with a large grin covering his face as handed his parents the letter "Here ya go, I think this is for you guys."
The Stoppable parents exchanged a concerned look but decided to open the letter anyway, after looking it over Mrs. Stoppable absolutely beamed with joy. "Oh Ronald! This is great. We're so proud of you!"
"Why Mom, what's it say?" Ron smiled knowingly, though he was still curious about kind of story sensei had created to get him permission to go to Japan.
Mr. Stoppable proceeded to read the letter, "It says 'Dear Mr. And Mrs. Stoppable. As you may recall, a year ago your son Ronald attended our school in an exchange program. We were quite impressed with his unique abilities and would humbly request that you allow him to return to Yamanuchi and attend some summer courses until his regular schooling starts again. This of course is completely optional, and will be an all expenses paid trip. Enclosed are two plane tickets to Japan if your son so chooses to use them'"
Mrs. Stoppable couldn't be happier, she always thought her son wasn't exactly the brightest boy, but if a foreign school was specifically asking for him, she must have to reevaluate her ideas about him concerning his schooling. Though right then all she could do, would be to encourage Ron at that moment "Well Ronald, I think it's a wonderful opportunity, and I definitely think you should go."
Mr. Stoppable nodded in agreement. "That's right son, If you want to go, you're mother and I support you all the way." He then looked back down to the letter and furrowed his brow in thought. "Though, I can't help but wonder why they sent two tickets?"
Ron smiled knowingly as he took the letter at tickets away from his father's hand. "Oh, I can think of a few reasons."
A/N – All right, next chapter down. I'm actually quite happy so far with how it's turning out. Next chapter Kim and Ron travel to Yamanuchi and find out why sensei had requested to see them. Again, thanks to all my wonderful reviewers! Keep 'em coming!